This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine ." Upon hearing of the Columbine High School tragedy, Virginia Wright-Frierson was affected as a mother and an artist. Further, her cousin, Ellin Hayes,

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Seeing students’ multiple identity layers and weaving them into the curriculum are both important ways to apply the concept of intersectionality in practice. Another key way to do this is to take a deep look at the stude

This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right ." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers us

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In the immediate aftermath of the Columbine school shootings, Principal Frank DeAngelis felt, in his own words, "the weight of the world on my shoulders." Five years later, he still struggles for answers — and still love